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Re: Office 2004 updates via ARD



On Saturday, February 10, 2007, at 01:16PM, "Kok-Yong Tan" <email@hidden> wrote:

>At 07:53 +0100 2/10/07, Hannes Gnad wrote:
>>Am 08.02.2007 um 20:23 schrieb Matthew Arion:
>>
>>Hi.
>>I was curious on how you guys handle pushing out Office 2004 updates (aka 11.3.3) to all of your machines via ARD?
>>
>>As all the Office 2004 files live inside the office folder, you could do this:
>>1. Create a up-to-date version of Office on your machine.
>>2. Copy that folder to clients,
>
>Unfortunately, that only works if you have a site/volume license.  If you have nodelocked 
>licenses for Office 2004, it's not going to work because all the clients will suddenly have the 
>same license as your machine and nodelocked licenses have to be unique, which means you've 
>got to blow away the OfficePID files and reauthorize each individual installation--a royal 
>pain in the derriere.
>

The copying of the entire Office Install is also an issue if you Administer computers in various cities and eithe don't have a huge outbound pipeline or don't have a Task Server in each branch (or both in my case).

Bennie L. Callies, Jr.
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 >Office 2004 updates via ARD (From: Matthew Arion <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Office 2004 updates via ARD (From: Hannes Gnad <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Office 2004 updates via ARD (From: Kok-Yong Tan <email@hidden>)



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